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Watch Video | Listen to the AudioSTEPHEN FEE: Asheville, North Carolina — a city of 87 thousand, nestled in the Appalachian mountains. It’s perhaps best known for farm-to-table dining…funky boutiques…art house cinemas.
But behind...

Thai surrogate mother Pattaramon Chanbua (L) holds her baby Gammy, born with Down Syndrome, at the Samitivej hospital, Sriracha district in Chonburi province on August 4, 2014. Thailand passed a new law on Feb. 19 banning foreigners from seeking...

Ashton Carter, U.S. Secretary of Defense, testifies before a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 4, 2015. Saturday Carter said the United States is considering slowing its military exit from...

Cigarettes are arranged for a photograph in New York, U.S., on April 14, 2011. In 2006, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ordered the nation’s largest cigarette makers to publicly admit that they had lied for decades about the dangers of...

Watch Video | Listen to the AudioMEGAN THOMPSON: The French are proud of their great cultural traditions. Lingering at cafes, celebrating their architecture and fine art. And then there’s the French love of books. This is the nation of Voltaire …...

One of the seven patients infected with the UCLA “superbug” is in grave danger, according to his lawyer.
UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles has told scores of patients they were possibly exposed to a drug-resistant bacterial “superbug”...